public.open.application

Function description

Goal

This function is used to open an OS X application, eventually with a file.

Settings

The settings dictionary contain all informations you can set to use this function. Here is a description of each.

To specify the app to open, two scenarios are available, an app name and an optional file path to open with OR an app path with custom args.

Key	Type	Description
title	Translatable string (see: Label translation)	Item's title shown in the menu
computedTitle	Name of the script in Application Support CustomScripts folder	First line on stdout will be the title
optionalDisplay	Boolean	Will show the related item only if option key was pressed when Hello-IT menu was shown (supported in Hello-IT 1.4.0+)
hideIfNotAvailable	Boolean	Set to true, the menu item will be hidden if the target app isn't available on the local system. Default is false.
app	String	Name of the application on disk without .app (TextEdit for example)
file	String (optional)	Full path of a file you want to open with the application (~ supported), to use with app
appURL	String	Absolute path for the target application
args	Array of string (optional)	Arguments to pass to the application, to use with appURL

You can only use app with file or appURL with args.

Sample settings

<dict>
	<key>functionIdentifier</key>
	<string>public.open.application</string>
	<key>settings</key>
	<dict>
		<key>app</key>
		<string>Managed Software Center</string>
		<key>title</key>
		<dict>
			<key>en</key>
			<string>Managed Software Center</string>
			<key>fr</key>
			<string>Centre de gestion des logiciels</string>
		</dict>
	</dict>
</dict>

More informations

Main implementation

The main implementation of this function is made in the OpenApplication plugin from the main project.

The original implementation use NSWorkspace from the Cocoa framework.